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...relaxing at a Brooklyn music club when a fight broke out between two women. Next thing Louima knew, he had been taken into custody by police outside the club. Louima, a bank security guard and a married father, says he was beaten as police drove to Brooklyn's 70th Precinct station house. But it was after he got there that the real nightmare began: as he tells it, he was strip-searched, then two cops took him into a bathroom and shoved a wooden pole, perhaps belonging to a toilet plunger, into his rectum. (Once Louima was hospitalized--after...
...started out with an unspeakably horrible alleged assault on a single Haitan suspect in Brooklyn. Now it's gone Federal. The pain of 30-year-old Abner Louima, who says he was sexually tortured with a toilet plunger by police at New York's 70th Precinct, has been felt across the country. Today the Justice Department announced it would be stepping...
...70th minute, Silva provided just that. Felled by a Terrier defender in the box on a breakaway, Silva was awarded a penalty kick which he subsequently shot into the lower left corner...
Despite celebrating his 70th birthday just two months ago, Lewis adheres to a busy daily schedule. He has written a daily column for the Op-Ed section of The New York Times since 1969 and says he doesn't plan on stopping anytime soon...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: What's in a nym? Plenty. Rebecca Sealfon, 13, correctly spelled "euonym" and claimed the trophy at the 70th National Spelling Bee in the nation's capital. The home-schooled Brooklynite takes home $5,000 in cash, a laptop computer, an encyclopedia and other gifts, plus a huge trophy and her requisite 15 minutes, which include a CNN interview Friday morning. Immediately upon hearing the word, which means a good name or appropriate name for a person, place, or thing, Rebecca knew she had it. Arms raised, she shrieked out each letter with arms raised, finally blurting...